More questions and answers from this month’s Fast Company-Roper Starch survey.

By Fast Company2 minute Read

Not every question posed to respondents in our special millennium edition of the Fast Company-Roper Starch Worldwide Survey found its way into our print article. Here are several more questions, along with the results.

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1. In today’s economy, there seems to be a technological solution for almost everything. But technology sometimes creates a new problem for every problem that it solves. So which is better — the old-fashioned 20th-century annoyance or the 21st-century digital annoyance? For each of the following pairs, indicate which you believe to be the lesser of two evils.

A postal mailbox full of junk mail or an electronic mailbox full of junk mail?

A postal mailbox full of junk mail — 39.9% An electronic mailbox full of junk mail — 60.1%

A workday full of back-to-back meetings or a cell-phone that never stops ringing?

A workday full of back-to-back meetings — 62.9% A cell-phone that never stops ringing — 37.1%

Telemarketing calls at home or telemarketing voice-mail messages at work?

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Telemarketing calls at home — 17.9% Telemarketing voice-mail messages at work — 82.1%

2. In each of the following pairs, we have listed the approximate market value of two companies. Given that information, which company’s stock would you buy today?

3. What do you think will be the role of the Internet in our lives at the turn of the next century — the 22nd century?

The Net will be our lifeline — 41.5% The Net will be just one of many technologies — 18.1% Something else will have taken the Net’s place — 40.4%

4. Consider this statement: “The entertainment industry has overwhelmed entertainment itself. The movies we see, the music we hear, and the books we read today have less to do with artistic creativity and talent than they do with commercial appeal.” How much do you agree or disagree with this statement?